Workers Press no. 739

workers press

T&GWU STILL FACED WITH €5,000 TO PAY

TUC RETREATS ON

ANTI-UNION FINE

Pay strike picket at GEC-Elliott

DAILY

BY ALEX MITCHELL

'WE DIDN'T know it was going to be like this, moans Jack Jones as the machinery of the Industrial Relations Act legally proceeds to rob €5,000 from union funds to pay a fine for contempt of court. The 1,600,000 members of Jones' Transport and General Workers' Union should immedi- ately demand to know WHY?

How is it that Jones, the chief administrator of Britain's largest union, didn't know that the Industrial Relations Act was empowered to fine unions and imprison individual members? After all, the batteries of lawyers and researchers at Transport House have had more than 12 months to examine the Act word by word. Now Jones is to ask TUC general secretary Victor Feather what to do. But does Feather know anything more than Jones? What will the luminaries of the TUC's general council be able to advise? How much do they know about the Act?

When the Act came into force six weeks ago, other major unions, the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers, issued a circular to all members advising them to 'ignore' the Act. Authorized by AUEW general secretary Jim Conway, the docu- ment stated: Wherever possible we must encourage employers to ignore the Act and treat the whole thing as one large party politicai irrelevancy. Best advice know about the Act, but ignore it and continue to operate activities as before.' trade union It is in the language of this circular that we see the treacherous politics of 'operate as Ignore' the Act, reformism. before'-when the Act represents a body of law, capitalist law, legislated in both houses of parliament by the Tory govern- ment to smash trade union organization and pick off militants. Didn't Feather, Jones and Scanlon know the true meaning of the Act?

Of course they did. But because they are utterly unwilling to fight the Tory government, they allowed the Tories to inch the Act onto the statute books throughout the whole of last year. is law. the the Now Act open collaboration by the trade union leaders commences. Three examples: • Alex Kitson, T&GWU executive officer and one time candidate for the general secretaryship of the Labour Party, has secretly visited the offices of the Com- mission on Industrial Relations to hold director of industrial talks with the relations, Alan Scoular. • Clive Jenkins of ASTMS is co-operating with the CIR and Sir John Donaldson's National Industrial Court into the union the Newcastle recognition row at engineering firm, C. A. Parsons.

• The Bakers' Union has agreed an INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • FRIDAY APRIL 14, 1972• No. 739 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE The shop stewards in our major ports Financial Times' yesterday: une Sa1d 'On balance likely that the are now con

TUC

council will recommenc tainer haulage which that issue will general T&GWU should the £5,000 fine the them Da.)

DELS

not upset count the courts outcome agency shop with the bakery employers, ane will calm that does

COIS

Sune the union's policy of non-co- certain- defiance of can only Unus permutunsue DOSSIDIlLY to fines with Act general and lead and those to operate in the industry.

UnIOnIStS

NIRC

particular. who for long have felt that they cai

LOC

occurring unentorma collaboration is may well also decide *The union leaders act ourside or the law. on a much broader scale. On May that unions should not in the future The meaning is clear. If militants, the 1a l Royal Regent foul of Sir Donaldson, the

NIRC

rade attempt 9. best and Fisher, president, and held defend their jobs, ocallon general just they will be contempt

LOACHLO

Natonal Union they upholding ST&GWU had because are COUrT. Employees, will discuss the Act the NIRC the had workers protest about speed-up,

TOT

along with Losin sood attended the when Heatons then i bei taken off too.

CIR

the Eddie plain shop stewards have initiated legal words, well have the Robertson been different. no protection all the Case Thay nOW ana union Engineering Employers' Federation. With this treacherous SAlT law is acuivated. wale Ther are being The one-day seminar costs £25 a head.

on the cards, what are the dangers for picked off by the the right wing CourtS The Scanion rank-and-file will be strengthening its hold the With conference the leadership now preparing Only by building the All Trades Unions WIll appear in tomorrows workers fress.

make aopearances Une COUrTS ana before reactionary employers Alliance with workers from trade we nave no conndence whatsoever In the

CIR,

the The alarm must be shinded can get on with their plans to prosecute can the present leadership fight the Act. militants stopped from staging a retreat; only The Journal of Commerce', the news-

ATUA

the the turousnout Lace movement are socialist - DORCIeS warning of a dangerous retreat before the employers, said yester- working fought for within the ot tne bori class Act. day in an editorial: trade unions.

ALL

manual workers at the tory last week rejected Eire TUC agrees GEC-Elliott motion from the NCD machine reW- London, struck work men for all-out action in fav- isham our of half-day strikes for half a day yesterday and to power 'scabbing' mounted a surone picker all the gates. It was the first in of half-day stop- pages in support of a f4 pay IN A bid to end Eire return to work by 4 p.m. yes- the

RAIL PAY

Calm. with

SUIKC.

Letudy As Congress officials left to employed by members The Thirty skilled men in the Electricity Supply Board yes- meet Premier Jack Lynch

DEADLOCK

NCD

shop told their members that issued Dantes machine terday saying: statement was have been out on strike tor should prepared uney Wherever shift workers are 11 we s hour £6 increase take over strikers' jobs.

THERE was still no not at week. solution shop and a demand wren the pay Autel meeting berween WOrKers

MUSI

Dre said ves STeware onn their representatives and offi- to undertake work talks broke up terday that the men would cials of Irish Congress which the absent shift workers stay out 'indefinitely if neces- between the new employment the would have undertaken.' Trade sary'. Secretary Maurice Macmilan unions the announced and. Their make-over • See troops threat p. 10.

afternoon. See p. 12 plan should the strikers not A mass meeting of the fac-

workers press

T&GWU STILL FACED WITH €5,000 TO PAY

TUC RETREATS ON

ANTI-UNION FINE

Pay strike picket at GEC-Elliott

DAILY

BY ALEX MITCHELL

'WE DIDN'T know it was going to be like this, moans Jack Jones as the machinery of the Industrial Relations Act legally proceeds to rob £5,000 from union funds to pay a fine for contempt of court. The 1,600,000 members of Ro Jones' Transport and General Workers' Union should immedi- ately demand to know WHY?

How is it that Jones, the chief administrator of Britain's largest union, didn't know that the Industrial Relations Act was empowered fine unions and imprison individual members? After all, the batteries of lawyers and researchers at Transport House have had more than 12 months to examine the Act word by word. Now Jones is to TUC general ask secretary Victor Feather what to do. But does Feather know anything more than Jones? What will the luminaries of the TUC's general council be able to advise? How much do they know about the Act?

When the Act came into force six weeks ago, other major unions, the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers, issued a circular to all members advising them to 'ignore' the Act. Authorized by AUEW general secretary Jim Conway, the docu- ment stated: 'Wherever possible we must encourage employers to ignore the Act and treat the whole thing as one large party political irrelevancy. Best advice-know about the Act, but ignore it and continue to operate activities as before.' trade union It is in the language of this circular s politate as treacherous that we see the reformism. Ignore' the Act, before'-when the Act represents a body of law, capitalist law, legislated in both houses of parliament by the lory govern- ment to smash trade union organization and pick off militants. Didn't Feather, Jones and Scanlon know the true meaning of the Act?

Of course they did. But because they are utterly unwilling to fight the Tory government, they allowed the Tories to inch the Act onto the statute books throughout the whole of last year. the Act is law, the Now open collaboration by the trade union leaders commences. Three examples: • Alex Kitson, T&GWU executive officer and one time candidate for the general secretaryship of the Labour Party, has secretly visited the offices of the Com- on Industrial Relations to hold mission with the director of industrial talks relations, Alan Scoular. • Clive Jenkins of ASTMS is co-operating with the CIR and Sir John Donaldson's National Industrial Court into the union the Newcastle recognition roW at engineering firm, C. A. Parsons.

• The Bakers' Union has agreed an INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • FRIDAY APRIL 14, 1972 • No. 739 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE 'On balance it seems likely that the are now following council will recommend tainer haulage

TUC

that blacking issue which will general the bring them into direct Da y LnC not count the courts outcome agency shop with the bakery employers, and will cam that . ThIS coes Tols the union's overall of non-co- certain-defiance of can only s permit lead to fines operation with the and and imprisonment for those in general unionists operate the industry.

NIRC

in particular. who for too long have telt that they can "The union leaders mav well also decide act outside or loe SaW. on a much broader scale. On May 17 that unions should not in the future fall The meaning is clear. If militants, the the Royal Regent St, Hugh foul desend tee trade of John Donaldson, the

NIRC

the trade attempt to Fisher, Dalliol alla seC president, be held in just they will be taken to contempt Time Natonal. Union they because ale 1U0 Employees, will discuss Act at had the workers protest about speed-up,

TOT

vith business attended at the when Heatons they'll be taken off too. Wood the Eddie the words, shop stewards have alic initiated plair director overson. may no protection all the Casc nOW Engineering Employers' Federation. With this are treacherous SulT activated. They being The one-day seminar costs £25 a head. on the cards, what are the dangers for picked off by the courts, the right The Theated to S Scanlon and Fisher rank-and-file will be strengthening its hold the With this the leadership now preparing unica cuck Only by building the All Trades Unions appear in tomorrow's Workers Press.

WIll maKe appearances Tre

CONTES

We have no condence whatsoever before the • reactionary employers Alliance workers from trade Lik, with present leadership maintants. get on with their plans to prosecute can the present leadership The alarm must be sounded fight the Act stopped from staging a retreat; only the 'Journal of Commerce', the news-

ATUA

the turousioul laut movemel ine are socials! DouCIes 101 warning of a dangerous retreat before the paper of the port employers, said yester- working fought for within the class Act. day in an editorial: trade unions.

WORKED

ALL

manual workers at the tory last week rejected Eire TUC agrees lew- motion from the NCD machine London, struck work for all-out action in fav- isham, men yesterday and our of half-day strikes. lor hall a dal to power 'scabbing' pickel all the gates. It was the first support of a 4 pay half-day series IN A bid to end Eire return to work by 4 p.m. yes- Dao Ill the

RAIL PAY

claim. with strike,,

DOWCI

Lciudy employed Congress officials left to by members Tne AS Thirty skilled men in the Electricity Supply Board meet Premier Jack Lynch a

DEADLOCK

NCD

shor terday told their members that statement was issued saying: macane have been out on strike for should take over strikers repared 'Wherever shift workers are LuCy weeks -hour £6 THERE was still no not at prior week. Shop solution and a demand wrai the pay Short meeting between …one WOrKCIS

HUSI

„DIC

said yes STewardi broke their representatives and off- rich the absent statt woors.

work talks up undertake terday that the men cials of the Irish Congress stay out 'indefinitely if neces- between mie would have undertaken? the Trade Unions, sary'. secretary marce Macmulan and the yesterday announcer A mass meeting of the fac- afternoon: See p. 12, • plan should the strikers not See troops threat p. 10,

PAGE 2 Workars Press, Friday April 16, 1872

AROUND THE WORLD

THE HIGH Command

BY OUR FOREIG

of the S Vietnamese National Liberation Front N Vietnamese units, spear- US tanks, headed by captured has ordered its troops to yesterday stormed the town of Binh An Loc, capițal 56 Long dash forward and win from •province only miles Saigon. total victory, the Giap- It was the arst time the town hong press agency re- itself had under attack although it has been besieged for ported yesterday. more than a week by up to 5,000 N Vietnamese and NLF troops. forces and 'Our armed After call for help big an, urgent people are recording by the town's defenders, waves of victories on all battlefields,' American jets dive-bombed the N Vietnamese tanks and helicopter the agency said. gunships strafed the invading troops. Morale of the Saigon troops seriously and was sagging By midday, however, half the many big units of the S Viet- reported city N Viet- Was 1n were surrender- namese army namese hands and military to fight, it ing or refusing Saigon spokesman said *the added. there is very bad. outlook AN

UNOFFICIAL

by strike workers of the maintenance Israeli national airline El Al, and walk-out. in sympathy by

RICHT: WING:

clerks, mechanics, ground Arab hostesses and drivers, ended yes- terday in the face of stiff goy- ment of Col Muammar ernment sanctions. Gaddafi in Libya has The strike, for more pay, was the serious in the history decreed a total ban on of Israeli labour relations.

strikes, both in industry The ordered workers were back after on strike three days and in the universities. by a Labour Relations Court.

Breach of the decree, pub- Fines, increasing hourly, were imposed by the on the lished earlier this week, carries court grounds that refusal to obey the a heavy fine of up to 200 din- back-to-work order was con- ars or an indefinite period of of court. The strikers are tempt imprisonment 'without back at work but conduct- now ing a go-slow. of the Articles two and three categorically: To decree state W GERMAN chancellor Willy leave work or refrain from doing Brandt faced renewed opposition it or to abandon any duty for to ratification of his treaties with the of the purpose obstructing Union Poland the Soviet and functioning of the administrative, Chris- following a meeting with social or educational utilities or Democrat leader Rayner tian other utilities and services which Barzel early yesterday. fulfil a public need is prohibited.

The two men failed to reach "To stop studies, or to hold a of the agreement on ratification educational sit-down strike in 20-month-old treaties and Barzel for the of institutions purpose said afterwards his critical atti- tude to the pacts had hardened.

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An Loc is cut off completely from Saigon, and a huge govern- ment relief column patched several days ago to break the siege. However, the column is pinned down on Highway 13 at a distance of l1 miles from An Loc and is making no headway., Reuter's correspondent Jose Katigbak reported yesterday the relief column moved only five miles in the last 36 hours.

He wrote: 'By midday today, the [S Vietnamese] tanks had not moved an inch from where *I saw them yesterday. "The only movement they seemed to execute was to deploy in new positions themselves every time a mortar or rocket shell landed nearby. Gaddafi clamps down in factory and cam obstructing its functions or to is not achieve any other aim permitted. 'It is not permitted to resort to strikes in any form to solve disputes concerning any specific Such disputes demand or aim. are solved by cordial consultation the jurisdic- without diminishing tion of the judiciary.' The law establishes a rigid system of direction of labour, under which workers can be SUNIOR Education Minster B. Y. Tudawe has been sus- pended from Ceylon's Com- munist Party central commit- tee amid persistent indications that the Party may split from the United Front coalition government. A CP spokesman said Tudawe had been suspended for flouting a party directive by voting with the government over the Crimi- nal Justice Commissions Bill last week. The Bill, passed by a two- thirds majority after only 12 hours discussion, sharply was attacked during the parliamen- tary debate by CP leader Dr A. Wickremasinghe as an S. fundamental attack on the rights of citizens - particularly the working class. The measure provides for com- missions Supreme Court of judges to try young left-wingers arrested after the abortive up- rising 12 months ago. The commissions will sit in secret and the defendents will effectively be presumed guilty The S Vietnamese found it impossible to reinforce their garrison in An Loc by helicopter because of the intense anti-air- craft fire around the town.

Lt-Gen Nguyen Van Minh, commander of the S Vietnamese around Saigon, said yes- forces terday the aim of the N Vietna- mese offensive was to hold Binh Long province. To gain control of the entire province they had only to cap- ture Chou Thanh, 20 miles far- ther S, he said. On another front, in the _cen- tral highlands, there was fierce fighting at Firebase Charlie, not far from Kontum city . Da Nang, the giant coastal air- base, also came under rocket and mortar attack, in which one spy sensitive plane with electronic equipment destroyed and was three others badly damaged. Ten GIs were wounded. y and campus. drafted into particular industries and their wages fixed by the government. There are also provisions to 'voluntary work encourage public projects dictated by the revolutionary march and the public interest': Libya is part of the Arab Federation with Egypt and Syria.

Gaddafi's latest measure under- lines the corporatist character of his military regime. iness trey can prove their innocence. One of the CP's six MPs ab- stained on the Bill and two others were not present in the House at the time of the vote.

Housing Minister Peter Keune- man, the only CP member the cabinet, was in Singapore.

The Stalinist MPs have been instructed to ignore requests for an explanation of their absten- tions from the government Chief 54 Italian lefts charg JUDICIAL authorities in Genoa, • str Italy, have opened a case against members of various Maoist and anarchist under groups article 304 of the Penal Code. This deals with criminal activities against the integrity of the state or the government and with acts of insurrection.

The charges follow police raids on the offices of the four groups—'Red Star' 'Communist Struggle', Workers' Power' , and 'Continual Struggle'. Sources said the charges which penalties of up to six carry • years imprisonment arose out of investigations into a left-wing THE REQUEST by exiled Pre- sident Juan Peron to be allowed to stand in the next general elections in Argentina deepens the crisis of Gen Lanusse's military regime.

Peron's request, forwarded by the Argentine ambassador in Madrid, Rojas Sliveyra, ends ears of prevarication bv Peror as to whether he wanted to return or not. Now 76, he was deposed in 1955 and expelled from the army 'demagoguery for and inciting the burnıng of the national flag and churches' The only man who can lift the and return his ban on Peron passport is President Lanusse, who was himself jailed for four years by the Peron regime.

On Wednesday, Jorge Gianola, the general of the secretary Peronista Justicialista Party, said Peron's request had taken him by surprise. Last week the way was opened for Peron when a remaining charge of treason and a warrant for his arrest was lifted by the Argentine courts. employers The Argentine badly need to use Peron's influ- over the trade unions to ence disorient the present wave of strikes and militancy. Anti-Allende rally in Santiago ON THE-eve of the third United on Trade Nations Conference and Developrent in ' Santiago, Chile, 250,000 supporters of the Chilean right staged a mas- sive demonstration and rally against the Popular Front govern- ment of Salvador Allende.

Senate President, Christian Democrat Patricio Alwyn; called a plebiscite on government for policies and for the overthrow of Allende: 'Thousands of Chileans who carried never arms are thinking it necessary now.'

Former President Eduardo Frei made an unexpected appearance.

He was given an enthusiastic reception. The size of the rally and the arrogance of the speakers marked advanced stage of the gathering of the forces of counter-revolution in Chile. They are the fruits of Allende's policy of appeasing the middle class by following the Chilean peaceful road to socialism. . The Party's opposition to Whip. the coalition's the Bill places future in doubt. The two other coalition part- ners, the SLFP of Mrs Sirimavo Bandaranaike and the renegade Trotskyists of the ISSP, both favoured the Bill. If a split occurs, it is believed Tudawe will stay in the govern- ment, together with Keuneman, who approved the Bill in its cabinet stages. charged in Genoa oa, • street demonstration held in Genoa last month without police authorization. The case is part of a growing legal onslaught against the left during the run-up to the May 7 General Election. eight By contrast, in Pistola, police and about ten civilans were injured and 25 arrested in night-long battles street after police attacked left-wing demon- strators at an MSI fascist meet- ing. Anti-fascists heckling were former NATO Admiral Gino Birindelli, the MST's candidate in Naples.

Manchester stewards urge Scanlon to national action Detective jumps bail for holiday with girl savage

FROM STEPHEN JOHNS

IN GLASGOW

WITH THE

formal launching of Govan Shipbuilders only days away, the big question on the upper Clyde is what kind of wages and conditions will the new Tory-inspired company operate. Agreements on an em- ployment charter and working conditions have already been signed by union officials. UCS shop stewards have refused to add their own signatures because of the delay over a decision that will settle the fate of the Clydebank yard. This, however, should not be taken as a sign that they do not agree with the terms of the deal. " They have taken part in two months of amicable discussions with Govan management. They now only await the government's decision whether to give cash backing to Marathon Manufacturing—the Texan oil rig company bidding for Clydebank. Exactly what kind of . signed by deal has been the two sides is a closely- But a guarded secret. document recently issued by Govan Shipbuilders indicates the direction they wish to travel. It is a blueprint for wage-cutting, speed-up and redundancies on the upper Clyde. In it they propose a wage freeze until January 1973.

A modification of bonus schemes that lead to 'un- reasonable' escalation of earnings, and a ban on un- official strikes. Other demands are for shift-working and full flexibility of labour. In particular they want to end the situation where one section of workers negotiate their own claims—a practice which encouraged leap- has frogging' rises in wages.

Instead Govan want to increases negotiate wage with all the yard labour force at one time. generally ruthless The tone of their proposals is indicated by this extract with the which deals current 'work in'. They say: 'A clear state- in writing by the ment unions of their desire to co-operate with the new company will be most help- ful, and in this connection it is taken for granted that the "work-in" will cease when the new company starts to trade. not be 'It should assumed that the men currently "working in" will be automatically re- employed, and shop will require to stewards revert to the situation where they were work- people first and shop stewards second.' How far the unions and the shop stewards have agreed to this savage plan remains to be seen. A SCOTLAND Yard detective who has jumped bail may have gone 'for a short holiday' with his girlfriend. The policeman, Det Sgt John Alexander Symonds, failed to charges of answer seven corruption at the Central Criminal Court on Wednesday.

FROM PHILIP WADE IN MANCHESTER

HUGH SCANLON, president met shop of the AUEW, stewards involved in the 23 sit- ins, lock-outs, overtime bans and strikes in the greater Man- chester area at the union's Salford HQ last night. It is believed that some stewards pressed him to lead the union in national action over the pay, hours and holiday claim. At the same time it was thought that Martin Jukes, Engineering Em- ployers Federation director-general, was still in the Manchester area dis- local the situation with cussing employers. Shop stewards representing 1,000 workers at the Bredbury steel works, Stockport, now in the fourth week of their sit-in, have met other stewards in the GKN combine in Birmingham.

They were promised full support by the Birmingham stewards, who will be putting their members this recommendations to week. steel rolling mill at Bredbury The works, not involved in the sit-in, is said to be running out of work and could shut down by the end of the week.

The men of BISAKTA, the there members are steel men's union. There are now 23 sit-ins, three lock-outs and two strikes involving over 22,000 en- workers in the greater Man- gineering chester area. The latest sit-in began in Stockport on Viking Wednesday when 120 workers at Engineering joined battle with the em- ployers' federation. ten sit inectian and former steward steward when electrician was suspended for a week for refusing to His do normally do. work he doesn t fellow electricians walked out with him.

By Wednesday the 120 workers at the Engineers behind t plant decided to sit-in instead of going an strike. "They thought from past working practices that we'd all walk out. But this time them their we played at game,'

AUEW

own con- Kevin Horner told venor me. The Viking workers have their for a £6- own claim effective-

'GREATER

a-week rise. So far they've offered ness' in implementing been £3, but nothing on hours and only new, Measured - Day one day's extra holiday— Work-type pay systems from 1973. is the main purpose of Said Kevin: Now that Stockport and the Man- working parties joint chester area has shown a between managements lead it's time for others to and shop stewards, says follow. We've also shown Em- the way forward for the the Engineering ployers' Federation. union. 'Now that we have acted It its 1971-1972 report I would personally like to just out, the EEF dis- the national leaders see cusses the large number- come forward and take up the claim.' of inquiries for assist- such systems ance on

HOSPITAL

patients are during the year. getting the care they not Most came from member with born damaged because companies long- a shortage of skilled staff, standing piecework arrange- of consultants 'were causing group ments which declared in London drift and wages serious The consultants, egionar senior inflating labour costs'. the members What is implied here, of and Hospitals' Consultants course, is that the effect of Specialists Associa- scheme must be any new tion, called a press and labour forces to cut their ference to express hold down wage increases. about what they concern The EEF goes on to set called a 'crisis' situation.

Mr Justice Yard Caulfield later issued a warrant for his arrest.

three suitcases brought The charges were London area with Syr Symonds following against an Miss Freeman's investigation into police corrup- mother said the coup tion by 'The Times'. her six weeks Two other detectives senior going on a short holi have already been given jail sen- had not seen or hea tences of up to six years follow- since. ing the investigation. they were going,' saic Yesterday told the Central daughter, Barbara Freeman, had packed Norbury. Workers Press, Friday April 14, 1972 PAGE 3 's behind the railings in Greater Manchester's 23rd sit-in out the problems workforce in establishing a CAV's ensuring this: joint working party to pro AUTO workers at 'Lack of valid work vide a basis for frank and factory in Sudbury, Suffolk, standards, inadequacies open discussion all walked out Monday Will lead to that the which claiming control aspects DOUl „dallase production and stocks, greater effectiveness. broken a trained and supervision agreement. "They include under- an Sudbury which makes industria erness in taking gineering are factors which diesel ectonnent make the necessary first plant in Britain to b have been found to hamper tele-control fitted with the many companies in making ture based Con: a change, the report says. producton valid work standards and is very system highly 'A major problem has of tech- automated. been to convince he current y determining Lucas/CAV other that these inade- and potential panies current factories are now consider- be levels of performance.' need 'blacking' Sudbury quacie. proved before changes When union officials and work. and covering wages stewards participate shop be successfully Crosland ditions Cale parties implemented. with management the What is mpanies gett,

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therafore, they To help companies get are cynically EEF has been advising used to help solve the em- for deputy first ployers' problems. compared enabling agreements

ANTHONY

CROSLAND

The only outcome of would 1s implementist the he such assistance will announced implementing yesterday towards speed-up and will run for the deputy wage-cutting, necessary changes. of the Labour more leadership The report goes on: Toe destrucuon We and more jobs. are have rari be conciers dic doneerens grateful to the EEF for the Michael Foot and Edward embodied clauses covering Short. the warning. from Symonds met Miss Freeman at burglaries, five arson and two of started Dains a nightclub in the Croydon area theft. caused of more than damage three years ago where she worked left the and stole property a with Symonds £13.000 he as a barmaid. valued at f487. Hull policeman has been The prosecution said Dains widowed series committed the offences while on jailed for three years for a the couple had told of burglaries and arson offences.

his beat. they were defence short holidav and she Dains' said It Mr (26) Charles Dains en or heard of them Hutchinson, said: is R. offences pleaded guilty to seven impossible point —four of burglary, two ot arson motive. Whether he wention of where mention and one of committing damage.

bring himself to the attention oing,' said Mrs He asked idered inhludite 25 superior officers reporting cases, it is difficult to say.'

including considered

PAGE 1 Workars Prosa, Filday Apoll 16, 1572

BUILDING

THE

REVOLUTIONARY

PARTY

Have you read the Draft Manifesto adopted by the All Trades Unions Alliance at the national conference at Birmingham last November? Have you expressed your views on the document in a letter to the Workers Press?

The Manifesto calls for the transformation of the Socialist Labour League into This historic and vital task must be fully discussed and a revolutionary party. understood throughout the workers' movement: trade unionists, their families, students, the unemployed and people in the professions are invited to express their views on the Manifesto.

If you want a copy of the Draft Manifesto write to the Workers Press or contact your local ATUA branch. Today we present further correspondence in the Mani- festo discussion. Bill could stop all night altins'; quich as theee in Manchester (abovo) The Night Assamblias 1926 General Strike : 'I believe the unio "Chuck the whole lot out,' said Tomany, 42, Frank when heard the news that Roy Jenkins had resigned from the Shadow Cabinet. Mr Tomany is a member of the AUEW and a turner at a Slough engineering factory. Pointing to the section in the Manifesto on Labour traitors he said: It has always been my opinion that we have allowed a big section of Tories to infiltrate the Labour Party. 'In the past when some move was made by the left they were immediately disciplined and some of the blokes who are resigning now were the ones doing all the shouting. But whatever they did they were never disciplined.

'It just could not go on like that. But I hope people take the resignations as they ought to be taken and not as they put it over on the telly. threw all these It is time we right wingers out and got men real who going are socialists. It is absolutely essen- tial to purge the Labour Party of these men and I think it will strengthen the party, not weaken What does he think of the Tories? Said Frank: It is the most reactionary government I have seen in my lifetime. We have had mild Tory governments since the war but Heath has been blatantly anti-working class and • got away with it. 'There has been no opposition from the trade unions. the dustmen, Look at postmen and the power workers.

There was almost an abdication by the leaders of the other big unions during these strikes.

'It took three major disasters before the unions got involved at all. In my branch we were passing resolutions early last year deploring the complacency of the TUC and asking them to take action before another big union went to the wall-the miners.

"The leadership of the unions should have immediately risen up during the miners' strike. My branch all-out called for an strike by the engineers in sup- port of our brothers. believe the trade union leaders afraid of what hap- are pened in 1926 when they called a General Strike and it only lasted nine days. But today the situation is absolutely different. There were 34 million in the trade unions then whereas today we have got 10 million. 'Men are more aware of a call Look what today. happened when Feather called a march against the Industrial Relations Act. It was one of the biggest ever. 'Feather should have taken notice of that because people have never turned out in those numbers before. If he had called for something stronger he would have got it because people are beginning to see what is hap- pening to them and to say "we have got to do something about this". 'What the unions are up against now are political ques e the union leaders are afraid' tions, it is not a matter of talking about wages and things like that. "The Tories have aligned them- selves with the big capitalists in Europe so that they can take : trade union movement. on the They have got to smash the unions politically to reverse the trend in wages, make business more profitable and encourage investment. Look at Scarborough and all those elderly people living in hotels at about f9 a day. They living off investments but are now these are shrinking and they This Tory are faced with cuts. government was put in to protect people like this. 'I think the Common Market is the last big stand of capitalism, joining together in the W against Russia in the E. "That big sit-in of the car workers in France a few years back really frightened them.

'There is a real possibility now no matter how you look at it that the slump will get out of hand. The American dollar poli- cies have had a fantastic effect in Europe and especially Japan.

'Businessmen have got to follow the trend of capitalism or to the wall and we must build a new leadership to meet them. 'When the Labour Party was in power last they were defend- ing capitalism in their own way.

They were not operating the Labour manifesto and nationaliza- tion and everything was dropped.

'Wilson was the prisoner of the gnomes of Zurich. Whenever he they for money went to them said you must cut this and that.

We called for an all-out strike against the prices and incomes we had a policy and massive demonstration in London. 'People are continually saying that we need a to new me leadership. They say what is the point of voting. Both parties are the same. •I think we have got to get the Labour Party in power and then have more control of it. If we put it in as a socialist party it has got to act as a socialist party workers' nationalization, with control and an end to compensa- They have made enough tion. out of that in the past. 'The Tories have got to be stopped. In their election mani- festo they put it across that they to govern in the were going interests of the people but they have not. They have governed in the interests of business. One of the first things they did was to relieve Corporation Tax. 'Look at this new fair rents Bill. I could be paying £9 a week instead of £4.50 for my council house once that gets going.

'And the Industrial Relations Act has taken away all our basic I don't think rights. anyone imagined that in Britain there would be knocks on a trade unionist's door in the middle of the night to get him into court.

"They want to the destroy unions with the Industrial Rela- Act. And this Night tions Assemblies Bill is not aimed at pop festivals, it is aimed at the working class. It could stop all these night sit-ins.'

Part one of a three part series by John Spencer on Stalinism and the Numeiry regime in Sudan, and the events surrounding the July coup last year which led to the murder of the leaders of the Sudanese Com- munist Party. General Numeiry's Following these talks, on New Jaafar Year's Day 1971, Moscow Radio counter-revolutionary Sudan- broadcast fulsome tribute to• dictatorship ese came to the Numeiry leadership: May 1969, power in over- 'The subsequent behaviour throwing ruling Umma the new leadership [i.e. since the the 1969 Party and installing a Revolu- 'coup] contirmed of the revolu- progressive line tionary Command Council tionary Telle with seven Communist Party Soviet Stalinists The particu- members. larly welcomed 'recent reports about the nationalizing of The officer corps represent- foreign and banks insurance who had carried out the atives companies. .. as well as reports May coup could not have done that indicate the workers the of the are without backing taking personally in largest CP the Arab world part pre- in paring the new labour legislation'.

with more than 1 million They 'forgot to mention the bers and supporters. death penalty for strikers! By February, 1971, the regime's leader Had mader his phas mistakably clear in terms which left no room for doubt: Yet the first edict regime's 'From who now made it a capital offence to go claims to be a communist strike! From the very be- on a Communist Party belongs to the character therefore, the Sudan crushed. ginning, will be in Numeiry's regime anti- of was It is your duty to destroy them.

working class. attacked Numeiry specifically General Numeiry welcomed the CP for trade interfering in 'all nationalist socialist elements', union work'. (Four months pIe• but added that they would only Cox had assured 'Morn- viously, be accepted if they gave up 'the Star' ing readers: was not and accepted the rule of parties of May 25, until the revolution of the revoltore the philosophy 1969, that they [the Sudanese long before was not secured full freedom to unions] the CP threat implicit in to orzanize.") these sinister words was trans- lated into deeds. the May Six months after Numeiry sacked premier coup, Abu Bakr Awadallah and took the prime minister's job over himself in response to clamour from right-wing Moslem fanatics the communists. for curb on "The Press warned: Workers military leaders are sharpening a blood-bath their knives for and communists' of workers 31, 1969). (October This was not how the Kremlin however. A viewed the matter moved fortnight after Numeiry Moscow premiership, into announced that a top-level Soviet He slammed those CP mem- delegation would shortly be visit- Sudan. bers wha had. had the courass couragi ing the same uncritical note was to protest against The 'They still believe throughout the fol- imprisonment: maintained so-and-so British that the survival of months by the lowing and the imprisonment of so-and- and its pub- Communist Party so... spells the downfall of lications. Star' for the revolution 'Morning In the 'communists' 27. 1970, British Some Sudanese October top Numeiry with •Cox published an obviously agreed Stalinist Idris they were headed This government this point article on Numeiry's cabinet while backs the trade unions'. He was still in their general secretary languished the to his visit to referring in jail! delegation of Sudan with a this shall see, it was Labour MPs. (As we section of the CP leadership and article claimed that 'the The Mahgoub Numeiry] the imprisoned present trend [under not of enjoyed Kremlin backing.) favour who overwhelmingly strong and independent CP This collaborationist section, 1970, just J. U. Garang, them On November among puff for Numeiry's Southern Affairs Cox's 50 days after had few words Numeiry government Minister, received a the Revolu- 'Star', Numeiry in the appeared in the of reassurance Command Council state- CP secretary-general arrested tionary sacked Abdel Khaleb Mahgoub, ment the next day: of the revolution appreciates officers suspected com- 13 sympathies and dismissed the role of communists who have munist the revolution members from the been supporting three who Command Council. understanding and with to consolidate month later the been Less than have acung and popular government's Defence government Sudanese Maior-General its inception Minister, Khalid levels since Numeiry's Moscow members of Hassan Abbas, was in As for top-level talks with the Soviet cabinet these people must pre- sumably have approved the jail- leaders. Above: Numelry, who collaborated with tt ing of Mahgoub and the sacking of CP sympathizers in the armed forces. It was not enough to save them from a similar fate later that year The following months were marked by continuous purges of " members from che civil wher service and arrests of prominent Party members. By the time Numeiry flew to Moscow for further talks with the Kremlin leaders in mid-April, more than 80 communists had been rounded up and at least sacked from 60 government ministries. Numeiry was at pains to assure the Kremlin leaders that the persecution of their comrades 'purely internal' matter was a and need not affect relations.

formula, Numeiry With this would have found no difficulty in reassuring these bureaucrats, who maintain excellent relations regimes whose with many 'internal' policy is violently anti- communist. While these secret discussions were in progress, the British Stalinists were registering vague unease about the future of the Sudan CP. previous November sec- The retary Tohn Gollan, without .... Workers Prose, ted with the Kremlin leaders while he jalled Sud wishing to interfere in Sudan's 'internal affairs', bad registered a mild protest against Mahgoub's jailing. Numeiry contemptuously ignored it. In April, 1971, the British CP periodical 'Marxism Today' published an article from 'The Revolutionary Command Council appears the to want experience and skill and dedica- the communists at its tion of disposal, but it resists the Communist Party' formula allowed This weasel Shaw avoid the awkward to of what to say about problem the divisions in the Sudan CP, with four members in the cabinet and its leader in jail. She put the problem down to 'weaknesses' in Numeiry's pro- and the pressure of gramme "some circles in Egypt'. Numeiry's basic political line, endorsed: "The however, was Sudanese communists recognize that at this stage of, dev notimat is a part national, there progressive capitalists to play in development. 'Unfortunately [sic] the par- ticular capitalist cabinet minister referred to is a member of the most reactionary Umma Party' The British CP's main objec-.

that Numeiry had tion was chosen the wrong capitalists for his cabinet! By contrast with the British .... •.. 1 .. kora Prosa, Friday April 14, 1972 PAQE 5 jalled Sudanese Communists. Left: Gollan mealy-mouthed formulas, CP's Numeiry's statements on return from Moscow were clearly battle orders for the Sudanese anti-communists. He spoke at Kormuk, s of the Blue Nile province, denounced the Sudan must drive the communists out of their ranks, he said. The speech was made within days of his Moscow visit. But Moscow's E European satellites were not in the least put out.

They went out of their way to Minister receive Foreign Abu Isa on a 'goodwill' Faruq tour of Bulgaria, Hungary and Czechoslovakia early the follow- inse discussed with the Stalinist leaders his plan to take Sudan into the Arab Federation along- side Egypt, Syria and Libyar a plan opposed by the Sudan CP leaders. With the Bulgarians, he regis- unity tered 'complete on "several international urgent problems, ; while in Hungary 'the viewpoint of the two govern- ments on international questions was identical' Clearly, Numeiry and Isa were • the Stalinists' approval seeking for their reactionary • Federation plans ... and got it! The stage was being set for the July bloodbath in the Sudan.

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PAGE 6 Workora Prosa, , Friday Aoril 14, 1972

SACKINGS AT OMES FAULKNERS

By Ian Yeats. Part 2. 'I thought we should have attack designed stifle any The day after Frank Tomany to policy for fighting the fight against joint reenaces. was elected AUEW convenor redundancies ready to put to the "The CP members declared Omes Faulkners, Coln- obstructive behaviour at Derek that our exer convenor ¡lly brook factory in Bucking- Howes would not hear of it. He bitterness стратес argued we should all be free to split * he fac that there entire shop hamshire, the of getting the men say what we liked. was stewards' committee to back a fight, even if we called è De with the meetint ant- summoned meet the to for one. •Cur the Cones any- the CP district committee. 'I think were trying members all build Having just been elected con- had prepared statements and they getting my card withdrawn. venor followed the line that was Mr lomany Was But fortunately, the full district suppose the shop stewards frustrating management at every him fight committee were there and when back in would turn by creaung almiculues.

put And since the record against 'They said Faulkners voted to oppose the redundancies most of the 439 workers at were a decent management and work-sharing belonged

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and discuss plant obstructing them at could rely that l was the of the possibility LOUr-Cay felt he 4150 week with management. avery Turn wien reev were conne DC's support. their best to keep the factory the district was on com. At the shop stewards' meeting open.' between 1967 and 1969 they went March 8-before It was at the DC meeting that the CP but to the DC-Tomany claims Com• CP CP, said I was there Mr claims the munist Party opposition to him to represent the shop floor.

opened began to take shape. up a second line •I did not join and after two of living as opposed to shutting years I came off. I got sick of the place down. all it. The CP members would 'If firm is any make profits and not in the whatever vote same way back to happened. financial difficulties, we as unions are going to fight. 'At the factory the CP mem- 'But in this situation bers of the shop stewards' com- to consider whether it was worth have done nothing but mittee 450 workers losing their jobs for try to take the heat out of every the sake of a bit situation. ation. "Their tactic has been to give I drew Mr Howes' attention and minimum leadership that engineers con. the of the stantly stress the danger parts of the country were occupy- closing if whole factory we their factories as fought against almost anything against the employers. did. management He commented: I don't think 'The CP called has constantly could have fought against me but I was only here because occupation doing job and defending have carried my couldn't All the duction. workers. materials be brought in from Even if we were in the factory, they could have just We didn't believe paying

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us. been would have Can answer' Commenting his ment as convenor Tomany, Mr Howes said: "The shop stewards voted me 'It was my record of standing out of the leadership and actually ID to management that set the I was quite relieved to Now •P gunnins for that me. In a situation like I have been sacked there is no- some difficult the factory to lead imagine body left in might have to be imade.' fight. It is completely Did Mr Howes feel dominated. ment had victimized their Ex-CP convenor Derek Howes venor? told me in view was 'They put the question either of accepting that of reorganization in Mr Tomany's section the department on the list, not just department was him personally. absolutely necessary to keep the Later I put the question to CP face the works running, or district committee possibility of seeing it shut down George Currell. completely. Commenting He said: 'We've got to main- that he had been workers claim a factory with tain ized, Mr Currell said: it able to earn a decent standard but 'That is a point of view, can prove it is a whether one different matter. to cut any joy out of 'Nobody gets They axed this situation. have the ment hole maintenance depart- situation we had This is indeed what happened.

March 24, 66 On men were sacked, 15 out of the 62-strong of reorganiz- department, includ- maintenance entire machine section ing where Mr Tomany worked. other The object was to sectionalize as a lever attaching squads maintenance by individual and departments thereby do away with the cost for an of a separate department as well we as speeding up repairs. on and Major assembly repair work would now be sent out to outside. the another factory-mainly of largely non-union Gay's stopped Hampton. it Monday March 13 the effective On fight to 66 jobs had not save yet been lost. replace- 10 March by Mr On management rejected the joint shop stewards' and DC committee's proposal for and four-day work-sharing week. out. Wards and or district shop can vou stewards and lecisions tary Currell on March 13.

According o the miel sook minutes of to manage. that meeting, view, the management's own contrary to the March 8 decision of the full DC, that short-time maintenance not 'practical' for working was AUEW members. with the DC's March In line 8 oppose all secretary resolution to •edundancies ETU steward San Roe proposed if that manage- on Mr Tomany's ahead and created had been victim- ment went would redundancies, all labour be withdrawn-the resolution was seconded by A. Mullen, but never voted on. Instead the meeting merely voted to pursue negotiations with management.

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'The Said Mr Tomany: stewards decided not to vote because they had been frightened by the CP members' insistence that a fight would mean closing the factory. 'We already had the joint stewards' DC resolution shop opposing all redundancies, but the DC did nothing themselves to implement it' which The works meeting followed heard the full list of 66 redundancies. Mr Tomany was asked to read it out and no other shop steward spoke.

Publishing the list to the men immediate effect. had It an the fighting spirit damped down of all those not on it. Although ex-CP convenor Howes denies it, Mr Tomany alleges that instructing him to read out the list was a deliberate manoeuvre to weaken him when he subsequently called for support. 'They asked me to read it out and there was nothing I could do', he told me. The maintenance department later met separately and four resolutions were taken. Twenty voted for a sit-down strike, men two for short-time, seven for a work to rule and nine abstained.

The CP emphasizes that only 20 shop the maintenance 1n voted for the sit down, but Mr Tomany claims a fourth resolu- tion-denied by Derek Howes- taken, proposed by 1. was Saunders. The gist of this was that since 46 of the 55 men present at the meeting had expressed some sort of dissatistaction over the redundancies and no agreement between them looked like being reached they should all stop work. The motion was carried.

following the Next day, he maintenance tradition of shop in acting alone, Mr Tomany led the 62 men in the shop on a strike against the sit-down redundancies. resolution Immediately a proposed by A. Mullen endorsing the sit-in and recommending no- one did maintenance work was passed by the shop stewards' committee. Sam Roe told ETU steward me: Previously when we had gone on strike the stewards had let other men do our work, so I asked if they really meant it when they said they would not allow it this time. 'The stewards said they did, but a CP member stressed that they could not physically stop doing maintenance any man work' On Wednesday only half the 62 men were allowed into the factory-the others were locked out. Eventually the entire depart- ment struck outside the works.

they By Thursday morning were all back at work, the fight W lost and shop stewards negotiat- ing the best terms they could for the redundancies. While the maintenance men were strike, the shop on stewards' committee passed a by resolution proposed Howes alleging that opposition to the maintenance men's strike from the shop floor was so great that there could be no question of solidarity action. Without sup- the strikers were forced port back to work. why the DC did not Asked back the strike, Mr Currell told me: "The maintenance department isolated when they came were out on strike. They took the their own and the action on did other departments not respond.

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'It was a tricky and difficult situation. If you take an action like that, taking you are a gamble and on the basis of what we had we could not let them stay isolated and get knocked Mr Tomany claims AUEW district Mr William organizer McCloughlin was kept informed of at Omes developments Faulkners. But a spokesman at his office said: 'Mr McCloughlin has been ill and away from the office. He idea there trouble at the factor, was any Workaro Prose, Fikday April 19, 1972 PARR?

Left: ETU steward Sam Roe.

Centre: Ex-CP_convenor, Derek Howes. Right: Frank Tomany.

The fear of Mr Tomany and of many other trade unionists at the that with the department its tradition militancy abruptly ended, a blow has been struck at trade unionism from which it will be hard work recovering. Said Mr Tomany: 'I think it is a real tragedy that a group of working-class have been men abandoned. Some of my lads have already said they feel like tearing up their union cards. 'But the union is not to blame.

It was the policies of the CP members of the two committees which are to blame. Workers have to be led. They won't take any action unless they get direct leadership. But this was never given. "The CP did everything possible to weaken the workers.

It was stressed that there had been marches and demon- strations against redundancies at Modern another local factory, Wheel Drive, but that all their efforts had been in vain.

'Their line was that we had management" and that "good a we should not be too hard on them.' has The management now sacked 66 men, and is sending other work outside to a non- union firm. A severe blow has been struck at trade unionism in a factory claimed to be the best once organized in SE England.

that the old the way. unions and boom, but The militar 1930. Uriburu Peron, Juan 'criollo' had tarmer, the coup. of appeal to and lack cers ence embodied in the secret lodge del Ejercita Ciall 1O1 alternative ment ana ola had he saw. ne was that an table and that should remain lal His role the establishment based state, the organizations. anti-communist and Mussolini, de ne the aimed creation class and the ent appeasement some frightened is no doubt that on military industrialists any

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union bureaucracies mount to struction of a corpo «nese ideas mave Abelardo Ramos everyond revolution and Argentina' to a 'His in Argentina' names combines formal repetition the rise bureaucracs and with the 1sm. foreign reflects th veronism the From united front, account the anded pro-industrialis military. In support the who, througn development', anti-imperialist. ine which had initially s Fourth International liquidation finally movement. ant mere gist for Moreno criticized position 1952. enemy Illall imperialism, facto seve anti-Yankee front o ine development into • Peron had beer Presidency, catura tne tactic: Our for the first time a f bourgeois entered a Liberating which removed gave way scene military been contronted ence veronism class with it the truth dest working Ellie difficult carried through class rush with 1960s. the This is the task fa Lanusse.

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ED TOMORROW.

Among academic experts on Latin America in the United States, James Petras is one of the very few to adopt a Marxist-type position. This makes him highly critical of US imperialist penetration and of those of his colleagues who in one way or another assist it. makes him favourable It also to revolutionary action in Latin America. In a field where the literature is now increasing at a faster rate before, volume than ever this stands out as a most useful and • penetrating introduction.

The first three essays examine the relationship between social Petras politics. classes and emphasizes the small size of the industrial working class compared number with the large artisans and service workers and 'subproletariat' huge of the unemployed and semi-employed people who scratch a living on the fringes of society and • live in unbelievable poverty. He brings out the fact that far from being the most revolu- tionary section of Latin American society, these urban masses are relatively conservative politically and that many have an essen- tially petty-bourgeois outlook.

some leftists' Despite what have argued, political leadership in Latin America, as elsewhere, devolves upon the industrial relatively workers despite its small size. In fact, this class has already acquired a considerable political experience. capital of What it lacks is leadership.

The middle class is also shown to be in the main a conservative social force, providing the mass with backing - together often sections of the 'sub-proletariat' -for reactionary regimes.

politicians have Middle-class worked within the established order and have been unwilling to support agrarian reform or to challenge the ruling oligarchies.

Many have co-operated with US- backed military coups. the As Petras points out, middle class has been unable to promote economic growth and is now in industrialization and a profound crisis. As he puts it: 'Only the interests and outlook of the working class coincide with the interests of democracy, and development, economic national independence, l.e. : • ; freedom from US imperialism.

Having brought out the re- volutionary role and tasks the working class which has, in the underdeveloped countries, to carry through the tasks of the bourgeois revolution. Petras is unable to take this part of his analysis much further. case studies of Chile, His Venezuela and Peru are interest- ing. but inconclusive. They do,

'POLITICS AND SOCIAL

STRUCTURE IN LATIN

AMERICA.' By James Petras.

Monthly Review Press. Price £2.90. the bankruptcy however, show of the Communist Party line in Latin America. This has effec- tively held back the working class from revolutionary leader- ship wherever it has been able.

says the CP's strategy Petras is based unsound two on premises (1) that there is a con- flict between the urban bour- geoisie and the landowners, (2) major conflicts 'that are between national capitalists and imperialists, not between wor- kers on the one hand and native the and foreign capitalists on other'. They therefore conciliate the middle-class political with leaders and oppose revolutionary action. As he points out in another essay, the CPs have 'entered a crisis phase, attempting to relate to the US-Soviet detente while confronting a new revolutionary •.. they have pro- challenge duced no new analysis or strategy the socio-political relevant to changes which have occurred in Latin America in recent years'.

In a number of countries it has entered popular fronts under middle-class Mean- hegemony. while, Soviet aid and trade have assisted regimes reactionary which have made the CPs illegal.

One of the main weaknesses of the Petras approach is that it accepts Cuba as a successful revolution of the type which he would like to see throughout Latin America. He believes that the Cubans are 'Castro and building socialism ... (by) the use of moral incentives'.

He fails to produce a thorough analysis of the character of the Cuban revolution and the nature of Castro's regime. The Stalinists' opportunism has devolutionnes tito the gutoun movements. Petras these sees movements as 'going beyond the pragmatic-empirical level of bas- ing revolutionary strategy on armed struggle alone'. His mention of Latin American is brief. The Trot- Trotskyism he claims, skyist groups are, 'quite small, isolated and frag- mented'. But he concedes that 'the Trotskyist critique of the • of collabor- communist strategy ation with the "national bour- geoisie" and of the conception of revolution in stages' has been significant. After all, he adopts it himself. further analysis of the A situation in Bolivia and of the Peruvian peasant movement led by Hugo Blanco would have been useful here. About half the book is taken examination of up with an American imperialist penetration and military intervention Latin America. His view, at the time of writing in 1969, was that 'the United States has seized the political initiative in Latin America' He goes on to claim that 'the new equilibrium reasserting US hegemony in the hemisphere is presently only slightly threatened by the emergence of a new revolutionary left. However, if the new revolutionary groups are able to detonate mass in- surgency, which presently does not exist, the new equilibrium in Latin America may be under- mined'. What is missing from this is to consciously build the need revolutionary parties new Latin America based on Marxism as sections of the Fourth Inter- Petras is really left national. with the hope of some spon- though he taneous revolution, does recognize, in his sharp and well-founded critique of Régis for party the need Debray, organization, leadership and theory. The vagueness of Petras' con- clusions no doubt arise from the position. ambiguity in his own An American university pro- fessor whose research has been financed by the Ford Foundation, feels that nonetheless he American imperialism must be defeated and that this can only be done through revolution in Latin America. But as far as can be judged from these essays, he remains a commentator. Workers Pre The mysterious blonde seen recently cavorting with Prince Charles, the future monarch, is named Miss Russell. Her father is the British ambassador to Spain. She lives in a magnificent house in Chester Square-just down the road from Reginald Maudling and Duncan Sandys.

One columnist said this week she had 'many friends who are journalists' Postal workers may recall that during their bitter strike the Earl of Lichfield organized a delivery service. Miss Russell was his partner. You want a bigger 'slice of the cake' in terms of pay, shorter holidays and hours, more better pensions? Of course you do! Then why not listen to the advice of Ray Gunter, who recently Labour MP for resigned as Southwark. Gunter should know all the answers because he served as Minister of Labour under the Wilson government (a post he one described as 'a bed of nails'). Now he writes for a curious periodical called the quarterly journal of the Industrial Co- Partnership Association. In its latest issue, he says: I think the time has come for orkers Press, Friday April 14, 1972 PAGE 9 'The Times' spends acres of type each year telling us all to rally round and support Great Britain. We must rebuild our great nation to its former greatness. England expects every man to do his duty etc.

Surprised, therefore, to see the will of former proprietor of 'The Times' , Lord Astor. He left an estate valued at almost £500,000. wealtwewill be needof this none Before he retired, Astor took himself off to Cannes to avoid paying tax on the £500,000, plus the Elóm left him by his father.

father. trade union leaders in this lengthen their country to vision, and instead of being engrossed with the immediate to look at problems of pay, what the future holds for our children. They should say they would remove restrictive practices - anything that retarded the efficient use of labour. "They would do well now to seek to educate their mem- bers so that we can keep the great machines rolling, even on a Saturday and a Sunday, on a voluntary basis if needs be, so that in the end the produc- tivity of the nation reached a level where we can compete freely and on good terms in the competitive world.'

Gunter hath spoken. But will there be any takers?

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PAGE 10 Workers Prees, Friday April 14, 1972 Glad Jenkins Troops mooted as Eire power strike bites quil-SayS

INDUSTRY

in the The power shutdown ment ministers to discuss unofficial strike the critical situation. Republic of Ireland came follows to a standstill yesterday deputy of the right- A try's 28 power stations who the second day wing Fine Gael party has OI a Midland worker £3-a-week wage to power workers' strike. called on Lynch troops to man the crippled An estimated per Pickets are operating industry closed cent Tom Fitzpatrick said that 250,000 outside most stalions Will down and almost the support of other trace workers were sent home. ot the danger unionists. The power te an eze. TRe TRADE UNIONISTS in Birmingham have generally welcomed the available was used Yesterday Eire ernment had an obligation to main- the bring the Jack Lynch, strike to departure of their MP, Roy Jenkins, from the deputy leadership of service CHOS DILaIS 111cl and other essential representatives end- - no mater dow i wa the Labour Party. ployers and other govern- done'. vices. who holds the Stechford visions, Birmingham, Open division, has left the shadow cabinet so that he can more schools Tories on the freely vote with the Common Market legislation.

to 'latch- The Midlands is a hotbed of right-wing Labourites who support the Market. Other key' kids Marketeers are Roy Hattersley—who Wilson made shadow Defence Minister- and Denis Howell, former Minister for Sport AT LEAST 1 million 'latch- in Wilson's government. key kids' are left to fend for an AUEW shop steward at Con Cronin, themselves during school British-Leyland's Transmissions Division, the holidays, magazıne Heath, and a constituent of Roy Washwood 'Where' says in article Jenkins said: today. I'm definitely not in favour of the Common The number of children with Market. It's just a capitalist set up. Jenkins has working mothers has 'rocketed" always plugged it. Now it's come to the crunch in recent years. he's had to put his cards on the table and come Kevin of the article.

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out with it. McGrath, says serious considera- was Chancellor of the Exchequer, schools old ball give y should to leaving tion 'When he the year to look at the time of Labour's Prices and Incomes Act, he openly said that if anyone went over the atter schoolchildren McGrath says that at present "norm", he'd find and means wages Ways schools become "forbidden terri- back He was obviously getting it oft them. holidays

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referring to car workers.

well- His arnicie a cabinet minister, he used was researched on the social problem herore ne himself with disputes and give the of kids' offers the to associate 'latch-key impression he was on our side.

most spurious of solutions Only reason he gets elected is because it's a makes HA understand the definite economic very strong Labour ward. People don't vote for are forced why women They are voting for Labour generally.

him. 1 casulls •I don't see what's undemocratic about a referen- The other countries are holding one.

BEA sack The Empire Coot any Match Healy

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what he said at leadership. is making a bid for the Iz tnat Jenkins threat 'He ought to be expelled from the adour carly. wouldn't he was a Tory He should join the Liberal say dams bass split l co ha basically is. that's what Party, because makes us jenkins nas Common Market they 19605-he was fogging the stronger- old and unemployed. Ross is 15 years sean brother Toni was one of the Young Socialist Right- to-Work marchers. He said: pilots 'Jenkins MP. Things really getting leaders 1c cabou Cock-eved from the Tories.' THE WORK-to-rule by British European Airways pilots will continue despite management Leyland plants threats of dismissal, the British Airline Pilots' Association said yesterday out in Coventry Gordon spokesman Hurley said the pilots were angry' about the 'extremely A STRIKE at British-Leyland's Triumph com- Radford, He 'I had several plant near Coventry, explained: ponents at telephone calls last night from yesterday hit the firm's car-assembly plant in who absolutely the city. angry pilots, nute he calm moat toe WOrK-TO- The 70 men involved in the strike had given the could erode the safety management until Wednesday to make an improved mal guis offer on a pay claim for an extra £2.50 a week. But • strengthen can only This Call BAC workers at their giant strike meeting in Preston on Wednesday broke when the said it would down hrm serve to strengtnen resolve LaKS of the membership have was linked to a on discuss ine claim orovideo le clear

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that made it productivity agreement. Late on Wednesday after- 'No strings' BAC men march uness uney oLel Corallons noon, the men, wno work on axle assemoly, walked offer, there bsolutely no point in re-openir out.

"BY OUR OWN REPORTER

STRIKERS from One hundred and twenty inspectors are on strike three and a £20 minimum wage talks. at the Alvis company, Coventry, over a pay dispute.

BEA's pilots are demanding Corpora british Aircratt or men to give 300 win macto through Prestion work-measurement and speaker at the mass pay rise senior cap- John evans, one of the inspectors, told workers Press that unrest has been brewing for 18 months.

march through Preston other productivity meeting said the produc- tains a minimum of £9,100 in niques on them. clauses manage- them into Last year Alvis, a British-Leyland firm, imposed a tivity LodY suDoorica Less than a dozen of the involved local trade unionists. ment's offer would but the Salary

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new pav structure on the workers wich The men have been out 3,500 strikers - from the work force 'in strait- job evaluation, time study and a form of Measured- factories Preston, jacket. They have rejected a BEA offer weeks sand Wartst- bringing

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lay work payment. Preston con- of increases of £17 a week, which Samlesbury John Evans 'Our claim had already been said: BAC's David Creighton- military aircraft plants.

accept wanted venor would give to,/os a year.

right through procedure to York as far back as latest offer Smith, said the deal would The dispute also concerns con- week spring 1971. When lead fixed wage rates ditions of service. we strike 12f-por-cent, over saw The voled overwenty the abolition of the gradings put forward by the management there reject company attempts and calm was immediate total disagreement by the men.'

to force acceptance of new strings' increase factory average.

ALL TRADES UNIONS

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Fighting the Tories Rent Bill WITNEY: Friday April 14, 8pm.

Town Hall. 8 pm. 'Manchester Arms ington South. Castleford digs in heels against rise gineers' pay claim.

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Daytona men joined for picket Trade unionists from other Birmingham f yesterday ввс 1 a" some 9.45 Andy Pandy. 10.00 Cham- pion the Wonder Horse. 10.25 Parsley. 10.30 Canoe. 10.55 Magic Roundabout. 12.55 Canu'r Bobol.

Mungo and Midge. 1.30 Mary, 1.45 News, weather. 2.00 Racing from Newbury; The Badminton Horse Trials. 4.15 Play School. 4.40 Jackanory. 4.55 Screen Test. 5.20 Hope and Keen's Crazy Bus. 5.44 Hector's House.

5.50 News, weather. 6.00 MAGAZINE. Your regular local programme. 6.20 GEORGE BEST. 9: Dis- tribution for Goalkeepers.

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onto the year-old Daytona picket lines A scene from director John Ford's 19 recalled by some of the pertormers wh of the most brutal areas of capitalist d CHANNEL: 3.05 Pursuit of excel- 4.18 4.05 Zingalong. lence. Puffin. 4.22 Dick Van Dyke. 4.50 Land of giants. 5.50 News. 6.00 News, weather. 6.10 Report. 6.35 Crossroads. 7.00 Sky's the limit.

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9.00 London. 11.25 News, weather.

WESTWARD. As Channel except: 3.55 Gus Honeybun. 4.18 News.

6.00 Diary. 6.25 Sport. 11.25 News, weather. 11.29 Faith for life. SOUTHERN: 2.05 Katie Stewart.

2.50 Good afternoon. 3.00 Kate.

3.55 Cartoon. 4.00 Houseparty. 4.15 Paulus. 4.30 Crossroads.

4.55 Voyage. 5.50 News. 6.00 Day by day. Scene SE. 6.40 Out of town. 7.00 Sky's the limit. 7.30 Saint. 8.25 Weekend. 8.30 His and hers. 9.00 London. 11.30 Film: 'The Man in the Back Seat'.

12.35 News. 12.45 Weather. Tower hill. ANGLIA: 2.30 London. 3.15 Sur- vival. 3.45 Yoga. 4.10 News. 4.15 Cartoon. 4.25 Romper room. 4.50 5.50 News. 6.00 About Voyage. Crossroads. 7.00 Anglia. 6.35 Sky's the limit. 7.30 Jason King.

8.30 His and hers. 9.00 London.

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Workers Press, Friday April 14, 1972 PAGE 11

BY OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT

SACKED engineering union members from Daytona Engineer- ing, Birmingham, were joined on picket outside the factory yesterday by about 100 workers from Joseph Lucas, C. H. Pugh, Pressed Steel-Fisher and other factories in the area.

'The treatment we are getting Seven of the original 18 who is diabolical,' he said. 15 months for struck ago 'I shall be down the district union rights are still on 'strike next week against to and picket the factory see what they will do now. If we every don't somewhere day. A nationwide black is sup- district The Birmingham posed be to operating against 50,000 committee organizes over the firm, but some of the strikers engineers in some of the biggest are critical of the way the Amal- factøries in the country.

Daytona gamated Union of Engineering Engineering, which employs about Workers is fighting the case.

The 25 occupies premises people, on AUEW's Birmingham E district the Kingsbury Rd which are little has committee called for mass bigger than the AUEW office in picketing each Thursday marning..

the city centre. This should have been done in the early days, said one of the Daytona men. 'If we had a real mass demon- Trafford Park stration could stop the lot. we As it is blacklegs and customers occupation and suchlike continuously are getting through.' EIGHT HUNDRED workers oc- 'We are pleased to see we've Frederick Smith fac- cupied the this last,' said got now, at tory on the Trafford Park in- another of the men. dustrial estate, Manchester, late I think the has done union yesterday. what it could. There have been There was a report that the times when it seemed we were of management the Sharston getting somewhere, but then it Cheadle Hulme plant at had falls off again.' locked out the small work force.

Shop steward Dale Brierley Two weeks ago the company forthright his was more in received a court order to evict workers from comments. the building. 'Iron Horse'. On BBC 1 tonight at 9.20 Ford's career is Ford's 1924 film rmers who have worked with him in his quest to create and glamour one apitalist development during the last century.

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7.30 News. Peyton place. Film: 'Siege of the Saxons'.

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studentswoni samplister PAGE 12 Workers Preas, Friday April 14, THE COST of developing Concorde may now top £900m compared to an esti- mated £100m when the pro- ject was launched 12 years ago. The financial position is likely to be reviewed today when Trade and Industry Secretary John Davies, Aerospace Mini- Michael Heseltine ster and French Minister of Transport M.

Chamant meet at the Jean British Aircraft Corporation fac- tory at Filton, Bristol. So far production of ten air- craft and materials for six more have been authorized. World air- lines have placed options for 74 Concordes. CARWORKERS at British-Leyland' at Cowley, Oxford, walked out at management suspended them for th

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THERE WAS no sign of a break in the rail pay talks deadlock last night after an afternoon of talks with Employment Secretary Maurice Mac- millan. NUR chief Sir Sidney Greene said that although arbitration had been sug- gested to them, they were in no position to accept it.

Macmillan left to consult with rail board chiefs at their Marylebone headquarters. After the meeting, ASLEF -Leyland's Austin-Morris body plant I out at 11.30 a.m. yesterday after em for the fourth time this week.

The men - 1,200 workers on the factory's Maxi and Marina production lines - clocked on as usual, but made clear to management that work have been restrictions they operating for the last month would continue. After section meetings, the men later decided to co home, vic same PRaiser to be followed today unless Ley- land decides on a complete lock- out. total of 2,350 workers A the two lines" day and night shifts are involved in the battle for a increase of a week, pay guaranteed earnings during shut- outs and other improvements in line with the engineering union's national pay claim. They have turned down an offer of £2.20 on days and £5 on nights. Stewards say this is pot in answer to their claim and breaches their February 1971 agreement with the company.

The national engineering claim issue Leyland's is also the at Service division, nearby BMC where an all-out strike is threat- ened if the fails to company with satisfactory come up ofter. A strike for the full claim was due to start on April 5. But this postponed when the com- was pany asked for further discus- sions. Now stewards feel they have waited long enough. IT WILL be cloudy with a little arginia, bar ornerwise Much o Wales and England, except the NW, will have a dry day with sunny periods. N, W and central Scotland, N will Ireland and. NW England have. occasional showers and sunny intervals. E Scotland will be mainly dry. It will be rather warm in cen- tral and S England and also in E Scotland. Elsewhere tempera- tures will be about normal.

Sun- Outlook for Saturday and day: Some rain at times. Mainly becoming rather warm in the S and W. secretary Ray Buckton com- mented: "The gap between us is wide, not as wide as it not would be if we got what we wanted. 'But the money does seem to be there to pay us the extra we're asking for.' Earlier the miners' executive passed a unanimous resolution pledging to give the railwaymen 'any help they asked for'.

President Joe Gormley said: union dispute to an end sooner rather than later. 'If the whole movement rallies round the railwaymen the same could happen now.' Gormley said it was now up LEADERS of the National Ur day defeated a bid to commi and damon rations in s autonomy. Delegates from Southamp- ton and Aston (Birmingham) universities wanted a pro- gramme of no collaboration with vice-chancellors and principals, the involvement of unions school-student and the lobbying of trade unions for support. • But the conference acçepted the executive's soft-line policy for national and local 'days of action'. defeat followed the equi- The vocation of revisionist students on calls for the removal of the Tory government in the cam- paign against its attack on union financing. Members of the International Socialists and Internațional Marxist Group opposed a Southampton amendment stating that students should link their Tory educational campaign on policy to other campaigns to force the Tory government to resign. this the basis They did on that it was the 'state' and not the Tory government thar was the enemy 3o-called Liaison Committee for the Defence of Student Unions, John Kent University, McGill from told the conference:. 'I oppose this amendment be- cause it indicates that the defeat of the Tory government will mean the defeat of capitalism.'

Then, after having opposed the central issue of the amend- McGill went on to call ment, delegates to support the on Southampton amendment. Having consciously and con- sistently refused throughout the conference to call for a fight against the government, the Liaison Committee is now attempting to provide itself with a left cover of opposition to the executive. the past three days, In the revisionist - dominated Liaison Committee has failed lamentably to provide the left alternative to the executive it pledged itself to be. As the delegate from Edin- burgh pointed out: *The Liaison Committee has singularly failed at a grass roots level to offer any sustained cam- on union a clear line paign on autonomy." Theré havé been' continuous to the rail unions to say how other unions could help. Also yesterday the Tory cabinet's emergency committee met to discuss whether they could apply a 60-day cooling-off period to the threatened national work-to-rule the railways on under the terms of the Industrial Relations Act. The eleventh-hour talks be- tween leaders of the three rail unions and Macmillan, the new Employment Secretary, were at the Department's held St de. James's Square headquarters yesterday. Meanwhile the unofficial work- to-rule already under way by • loco drivers on the S and E regions was intensified. But the drivers' leaders, Ray Buckton Associated onal Union of Students yester- commit the union to strikes, ons in support of student-union criticisms of an executive sell out in the autonomy campaign.

National secretary Mike Terry agreed that a 'number of critic- isms have been made of this executive' President Digby Jacks, how- ever, made it clear that he did not hold with any criticism: 'The arguments that have been out against this executive have been vacuous and non-political.

They are nothing more than empty rhetoric.' Human block on River Don machines PLANS to prevent the move- ment of machinery from the British Steel Corporation's River Don, Sheffield, works are to be meeting today. put to a mass If agreed, workers will sur- round machines whenever person- nel from Firth Brown Ltd, the private-enterprise company which is taking over the BSC's drop- forge operations, try to shift any- Steelworkers' shop stewards hope in this way to force the BSC's hand on their demands for smelting-shop facilities to be continued at River Don. They also want improvements in the corporation's pay offer for new system of three-shift working. A second proposal to be put to today's meeting is that the 'work-on' of a small number of workers made redundant by the BSC should be ended in a fort- night. Socialist Labour League and Ye

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Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen, told his London Transport underground members not to take part in the unofficial action while negotiations were continuing. Before entering the talks with Macmillan Buckton said: 'I am this meeting hopeful with the Minister will allow us to be able to negotiate this matter to a suc- cessful conclusion so that we do enforce have to the not threatened action on Monday.'

In the House of Commons Minister yesterday Prime Ed- ward Heath, said the board's offer was 'very generous'.

The three rail unions-ASLEF, the National Union of Railway- and the Transport Salaried men Staffs' Association-are due to start an official national work-to- rule on April 16 unless British Rail steps up its offer. The unions are demanding a 16-per- cent pay rise. ONE of the biggest bombing campaigns since the an- nouncement of direct rule was mounted in Ulster yesterday. In Castlederg, Co Tyrone, a car bomb wrecked shops in the town centre injuring two police- med.:.. Windows blown out were over a radius of 50 yards and clothes and other goods littered the street. Two electricity pylons were blown up near Crissmaglen, Co Armagh, and a hijacked milk van believed to be loaded with a bomb blocked the main road.

A woman died and her hus- band wounded after an was explosion in Ballymoney, Co Antrim. Dozens of anonymous warn- ings of bombs were telephoned to shops and offices throughout the Province. In Belfast • whole blocks of buildings were empticd and the city centre was crowded with evacuated workers who were immediately threatened with a wave of car bomb scares. Fourteen buses at the city bus "station off Royal Avenue, the main shopping street, were an explosion. No damaged by one was hurt. In Newry four gunmen shot security guard in the knee a before bombing the local council offices. Two other bombs were reached by bomb disposal ex- perts before they exploded.

ROYAL GROUP dockers in Lon- *do yesterday gave ünanimous support to the Liverpool dockers "blacking' container who are lorries operated by three haulage firms. Shop stewards in London told 1,000 Royal group men that be- cause of the fight to prevent sur- plus dockers being returned to the unattached pool, they were have unregi- not prepared to stered labour handling cargoes. Stevedores' Union Leading steward Bernie Steers said a closer watch would be kept on cargoes in London. e and Young Socialists

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